Thursday 5/17. Up
and off the dock at 6:30. The bad news
is that it is cool, raining and foggy.
The great news is that we have very light winds and flat seas. Today is the best travel day ahead for a few
so we want to make it some where we will enjoy hanging out for a few days. Our destination is Mystic, CT. We actually had a pretty good run there til
we got to the entrance channel (where it is tight maneuvering and our
visibility from heavy fog went down to less than 50'. To make matters more challenging there was
current in the channel so we had to make speed (headway) while figuring out
where we were. We made it through this narrow stretch and visibility improved
and we were docked at Fort Rachel Marina by 4:00. We got ourselves and OBSERVER squared away
and took Millie for a walk about. We saw
a great place for dinner - the Oyster Club.
Alice went in to get a table and Tim took Millie back to the boat. We had a delicious meal there - yum.
 |
| Fog setting in |
 |
| Great meal! |
Friday 5/18 - As expected not a very good travel day
today so we stayed put. It was pretty
low key. We did some exploring around
town and a little bit of shopping.
Chicken parm. on board for dinner - a very relaxing day.
 |
| View off our port |
 |
The Mystic railroad swing bridge in the closed position
|
 |
| And in the open position as seen from the stern of Observer |
 |
| Fresh flowers in the women's head at the marina (I have it on good authority that there were fresh flowers in the men's head, as well) |
 |
| Sunset view off our port |
Saturday 5/19.
It's raining and cool here and winds are not conducive to continue our
travel north. The hi-light of the day
was a visit to the Mystic Seaport Museum.
It was a great day to tour their exhibits - their collections of wooden
boats is second to none. No visit to
Mystic Seaport would be complete without a thorough inspection and purchases at
their bookstore. In an effort to save
some of our on board provisions we dawned our rain gear and walked down to the
Tavern at the Daniel Parker Inn for a really nice dinner.
 |
| Mystic Seaport Museum |
 |
| Daniel Parker Inn |
Comments
Post a Comment